This is the journey of two middle aged women embarking on the RV fulltimers life. Preparing and living as nomads to keep from being committed to the local lunatic asylum by their friends and family. This is their journey from beginning to present day.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

He spent an afternoon sanding and repainting the fifth wheel hitch.
Looks very nice.

He tore out the interior steps I built this past summer and rebuilt
them. I’m not a carpenter by any means, but they have worked well for us until
they started squeaking!

He also added foam board insulation in the basement. That has already
made a big difference. Over time, the basement doors leak air and there wasn’t
any real insulation in the basement area.

We do let him rest occasionally!

Dawn and I also invested in a DISH Tailgater satellite and DISH
receiver. We bought them both at Camping World.

I’ve read a lot of reviews on this system and most of them are good
ones.

We drove over to Camping World in Denton. The store manager told us
they have a hard time keeping the Tailgater satellite in stock. He said that
the so far the only ones that have been returned are the ones that were sold
on-line and delivered through shipping. He said he believes that he thinks that
because the large box is so light weight that the delivery companies chunk the
boxes.

The satellite itself is very lightweight. It comes with a fifty foot
coax cable.

The setup was very easy. I hooked the DISH receiver up to the TV,
connected the coax cable, pointed the tailgater towards the southern sky per
instruction and Walla we were ready to call DSH and activate our account.

It took ten minutes to hook everything up and ten minutes on the phone
to activate our account. We now have our choice of more channels than we’ll
ever be able to watch!

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Things have been busy around our place lately. My Son is visiting from
Phoenix.

His plane came into DFW airport at 5:15 A.M on Thursday morning. Dawn
and I left the trailer a little after 4:00 A.M in order to be there when his
plane arrived. His flight was a few
minutes late but it all worked out that we arrived at the same time his flight
landed.

We left the airport and stopped for breakfast. After breakfast we
returned to the trailer where everyone took a short nap.

My son is hyper too. He is very mechanical and I have taken full
advantage of it. The windshield washer reservoir on the truck has been leaking
for over a year. I could pour washer fluid in it and it would run out almost as
quick!

We (HE) removed the reservoir and found the motor located at the bottom
had a crack in it. A trip to the auto parts store and a little time later, it
was working good-as-new. Thanks son.

He helped me wash the truck and we (HE) detailed all the plastic trim.
Thanks so

He must have needed some rest so he went to visit other family members
for a few days!!!!!

We’ve had some problems with our water heater and I have spent a few
weeks trying to trouble shoot the thing to get it to work. We normally don’t
use the propane to heat it. The electric has always worked fine.

When it’s real cold out, we like to use the propane. It just didn’t
want to light. I’ve turned in on several times and nothing would happen. It
would go through the motion and then it would shut out. I got flustered and
just left it alone. Thank-goodness we had electric too.

A couple of weeks ago, one of the regular campers here at the park came
over and we took the thing apart and cleaned the orifice and checked the
igniter and all looked well. We put it all back together and still it wouldn’t
light.

The water was warm but not hot by any means. I decided maybe the
heating element was going out on it.

A few days later I decided to try the propane again. I turned the
propane switch on and I heard the igniter clicking. I turned it off and right
back on again and BOOM, it fired right up. I couldn’t believe it.

It fired up on a regular basis but the water wasn’t getting any warmer.

We drove out to Camping World on Sunday to get a new heating element. I
talked with the service tech and he explained that the heating element does
gradually go out. He said when it goes out it will be all at once. He suggested
I double check the bypass valves on the water heater and make sure everything
is where they need to be before replacing the heating element.

When we got home, I looked under the kitchen sink and it appeared all
the valves were where the manual said they should be. I don’t know how they
would have gotten turned anyway. I’ve never turned them.

I decided to turn one of the three valves that I thought might be the
valve that needed to be turned. I had to use a pair of pliers to turn the
valve.

I turned it and checked the water. The hot water came out of the faucet
steaming! BOOM! I’m on a roll now!

I have thought about it and still don’t know how on earth that valve
got turned. It took pliers to get it turned in the right direction.